Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom). Nasser, who claims leadership of Africa because Egypt guards "the northern gate of the continent," suffered mortification when he arrived without the two Egyptian corvettes assigned to escort him. Reportedly, they ran out of fuel and had to be ignominiously towed into a Spanish port...
When Alexander Woollcott asked to see the collection, Barnes sent him a nasty note signed with the name of his dog (which was, impressively enough, Fidèle de Port-Manech). Walter P. Chrysler Jr. got a "rejection slip" signed by a fictitious secretary named Kelly. Though the young James Johnson Sweeney managed to make the grade, the Modern Museum's Alfred Barr Jr. was rudely rebuffed by Barnes, and Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum never got in at all. Members of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were banned as being "habitually...
...time-Charleyism of San Francisco. While New York probably has more nightclub activity than any European city, it cannot touch the vulgarity of Hamburg or the competitive, nuder-than-thou spirit of Paris, where G-strings are worn only by fiddles, and one hilariously surrealist female statue-at the Port du Salut-has a heart-shaped chamber carved in her left breast, in which two white mice play...
...week), plus 50% of the cost of the machinery and up to one-half of the cost of building a plant. In addition, it will pay the full cost of building plants in the underdeveloped western counties. To companies locating plants in the customs-free port in Shannon, it gives a tax holiday on export profits until...
Also elected were John A. Lowe of Mower and New York City; George A. McDermott, Jr. of Mower and Port Washington, N.Y.; Andrew O. Shapiro of Thayer and West Hartford, Conn.; Marc A. Slotnick of Hottis and Newton Centre; Mark L. Winer of Greenough and Dallas, Texas; and R. Peter Wolf of Thayer and Beltsville...